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ELECTRIC WIRE SUPPORTER.

Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

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OSCAR MANN DRAPER, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF, AND ALBERT SOBANTON IVEAVEB- ANDOSCAR N. BENDER, BOTH OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ELECTRIC-WIRE SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,954, dated December 9, 1 884.

Application filed July 31, 1884. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Oscan MANN DRAPER, of North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Electric-fire Supporters and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is an end view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of an article containing my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

It consists not only of a block or cylinder,'A, having in its periphery or perimeter a series of grooves, a, parallel to each other and extending from end to end of the said block or cylinder, but of an annular housing or sleeve,

B, encompassing such block or cylinder, such sleeve B being flanged at its ends, as shown at Z2 Z) in the drawings. The flanged annular housing is to be suspended from a rope or wire by means of a suitable clamp or hanger applied to such Wire and dependingtherefrom,

and going around the housing. Each wire of the series of electric wires is to be placed in one of the grooves, a, whereby the piece A serves to aid in holding the several Wires and in keeping them apart from each other, the housing also aiding in holding the wires in place in the grooves and protecting them from injury. Vhen each of the wires has upon it a covering non-conductive of electricity, the parts A and B may be made of a material or materials that may be conductive ofelectricity;

but when the wires are not so covered the parts A and B should be of glass or other substance which is a non-conductor of electricity.

I do not claim an electric-wire supporter 0 consisting of a block having a single groove in it, and a casing surrounding such block, all being as represent-ed in the United States Patent No. 285,267; nor do I claim for insulating and protecting electrical conductors a .5 conduit consisting, essentially, of tubes formed in sections and Segments having grooves, all as shown in the United States Patent No. 269,568, my supporter being adaptableto a hanger to depend from a cable, rod, or wire, and having flanges to its housing to prevent it from slipping endwise in the hanger.

I claim- The electric-wire supporter, as described, consisting of the cylinder or block A, having the series of grooves in its outer edge and extending from end to end of it, and the annular housing B and its flanges b, encompassing such cylinder or block, all being essentially as set forth.

OSCAR MANN DRAPER.

Nitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

